Quotes About Repentance

Many who had believed now came forward, confessing and disclosing their deeds.

And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books and burned them in front of everyone. When the value of the books was calculated, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas.

testifying to Jews and Greeks alike about repentance to God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

I fell to the ground and heard a voice say to me, ëSaul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?í

ëWho are You, Lord?í I asked. ëI am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are persecuting,í He replied.

And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and wash your sins away, calling on His name.í

As Paul expounded on righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became frightened and said, “You may go for now. When I find the time, I will call for you.”

We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice say to me in Hebrew, ëSaul, Saul, why do you persecute Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.í

First to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to everyone in the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I declared that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds worthy of their repentance.

So when you, O man, pass judgment on others, yet do the same things, do you think you will escape Godís judgment?

Or do you disregard the riches of His kindness, tolerance, and patience, not realizing that Godís kindness leads you to repentance?

But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when Godís righteous judgment will be revealed.

What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.

As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one.

All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”

“Blessed are they whose lawless acts are forgiven, whose sins are covered.

What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase?

Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?

What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.

For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will certainly not spare you either.

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his fatherís wife.

And you are proud! Shouldnít you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?

hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.